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February 7, 2018 by Daniel P. Clark

God’s Provision

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6 The Bible’s fairly clear on the kinds of provisions God provides, and no it won’t be a Lamborghini. It largely comes down to simple things. “Therefore I say to…

April 14, 2017 by Daniel P. Clark

“Naming Things is Hard”

I’ve lost count of the times I’ve heard that “Naming things is hard.” This is said very often in the world of software development. So I wanted to take the time to address it. First of all this statement “Naming things is hard.” is a misnomer (a wrong or inaccurate name or designation, or use of a name…

April 21, 2016 by Daniel P. Clark

Encrypted Linux Backup with Google Drive and Duplicity

When it comes to protecting your important data it’s best to have at least 3 copies of your things backed up. One should be air-gapped (not actively connected) and another be offsite (not at the same building). The air gap will protect against malicious code that would encrypt all your files and force you to…

December 11, 2015 by Daniel P. Clark

Faith Defined

The meaning of the word faith has been broken by media and many in society. It’s become more synonymous with “magical” wishful thinking. “You keep using that word; I do not think it means what you think it means”. Michael Ramsden has quite well expressed the rational behind the typical understanding of faith. In the…

December 7, 2015 by Daniel P. Clark

Insecurity

Insecurity – “uncertainty or anxiety about oneself; lack of confidence.” Where does it come from? Why does it exist? There are times when we need to take a deeper look at ourselves and identify what potential insecurities we may have and how to deal with them. Thinking on it I think of a young baby…

August 15, 2015 by Daniel P. Clark

Install Ubuntu 15 Over the Network PXE/BootP/TFTP NetBoot

No Floppy? No CD/DVD? No Bootable USB ports? No Problem! What I used for the installation: Debian based Linux Distro (CrunchBang++) on my Netbook to act as a Network boot server. Crossover cable (possible with 2nd hub/router setup) External USB Wifi adapter Software for implementation: atftpd lftp isc-dhcp-server Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) Netboot The Process…

March 17, 2015 by Daniel P. Clark

My Favorite Linux Applications

I work in Ubuntu Linux on my main PC and CrunchBang Linux on my netbook. I just wanted to share a bunch of things I like using on my Linux systems. Media A bit of advice for audio: once you have recording working flawlessly with your audio drivers don’t do any upgrades, it’s a pain…

January 16, 2015 by Daniel P. Clark

The 500 Millisecond Rails Partial

Click… 15 seconds later: “Something went wrong”. So that happened. I’d written a web based email client and it was taking too long to load. If it reached 15 seconds it would quit because of the servers time-out setting. Here’s my journey into finding out what went down. First things first, I needed to know…

January 14, 2015 by Daniel P. Clark

Email Composer/Editor Template for WebDevs

I went searching online for a HTML template of an email composer and didn’t find any. I’m very disappointed in the interwebs for not being so forth coming. There are many sites and services that allow you to write email. Heck even Rails has ActionMailer which can handle sending mails. But why not have a…

January 12, 2015 by Daniel P. Clark

Vanilla JavaScript – Stepping into the language

When you see “vanilla JavaScript” it’s titled for not having any added “flavors” of JavaScript. Not to be confused with the Vanilla-JS framework. In other words it’s the unadulterated original language. On my blog post about JavaScript being easy with jQuery I received a few comments about JavaScript being easy anyway. jQuery is designed so…

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